Float a DIV left with BBcode?

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Float a DIV left with BBcode?

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Can you wrap a DIV around content within a post to make that content float left?

HTML example:

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<div style="float:left">div2</div>

<p>some text</p>
Output:

div2sometext


I tried in BBcode to do:

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[left]{text}[/left]

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<div style="float:left">{text}</div>

The content I am trying to float left is a lightbox thumbnail, but it could be any text or image. The above code when wrapped around text or image just displays the tags, does not float left. All I get is:

[left]testtest[/left]

Am I doing something wrong or is this just not possible?
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Re: Float a DIV left with BBcode?

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[float={IDENTIFIER}]{TEXT}[/float]

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<div style="float:{IDENTIFIER}; padding:0 10px;">{TEXT}</div>

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[float=left/right/center]Text oder Bild[/float]
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Re: Float a DIV left with BBcode?

Post by ryecon »

Thanks for the replies!
Tastenplayer wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 7:44 pm

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[float={IDENTIFIER}]{TEXT}[/float]
What is 'identifier'? Searched but cannot find info on it.

Tested the code posted but it does not work. It is basically the same code I tried in my OP. It does not format the {text} it just displays as:

[float]text[/float]

Any way I try to float a div left it displays as above,

I have BBcode working to float an image left, it does as expected:

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[pic_small_left]{URL}[/pic_small_left]

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<img src="{URL}" style="float:left;padding-right: 5px;max-height: 100px; width:auto;" />
So the IMAGE element can be floated and text will wrap as expected. But DIV element does not seem to want to work.

1- Is there a formatting error or typo in my original code?

2- Why are the tags being displayed in the post?
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Re: Float a DIV left with BBcode?

Post by ryecon »

Well I got it working. Not sure what was wrong with previous code as this code is basically the same. Maybe BBcode did not like what I tried to name the tag or maybe there was blank space issue I did not see... no idea.

Anyway, this works in 3.2.5:

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[float_left]{TEXT}[/float_left]

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<div style="float:left; padding:0 10px;">{TEXT}</div>

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Float left for text wrap: img, video, text
Use [float_left]anything[/float_left] tags around anything to float it left and allow text (or anything else) to wrap or be positioned beside it.

I am using it to position multiple lines of text beside a lightbox thumbnail.

Thanks.
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Re: Float a DIV left with BBcode?

Post by Tastenplayer »

ryecon wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 11:46 pm Anyway, this works in 3.2.5:

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[float_left]{TEXT}[/float_left]

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<div style="float:left; padding:0 10px;">{TEXT}</div>

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Float left for text wrap: img, video, text
Also works in 3.2.7 with an attachement image and text to the right of it.
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